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Summary: Show and Tell
Review: This movie is about 1 centimeter from being X rated. With a good story, plot line, acting, you don't need to go to the extreem with the sex stuff. As I was looking around the theater, I noticed others as uncomfortable as I, and a mad rush to the door as soon as it was over. Many individuals were squirming in their seets, and not from a rush of hormones. They, like myself, were uncomfortable!
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Summary: Olivier Martinez!
Review: I think this movie had a wonderful beginning. Hot and steamy. I don't think Olivier Martinez had enough lines or was in the film quite enough. I think this is finally an erotic film for women!! I just had a problem with the last part. The film did come to a climax and then you think, 'ok, now what?', then the film keeps going and going and then just ends! The entire theatre went, "uhhh!" But then we all left happy. The first part was so great and gets you going you forget about the ending. The director does get his point across very well with all of the emotions involved in having an affair. I do not think Richard Gere did a bad job. I just think that everyone is used to seeing him as the hunky object in every movie. This time he took a back seat. He played a normal husband. He didn't play a boring old man, just a husband, a normal husband. And of course Diane Lane was wonderful. She did an excellent job. I just can't wait to see Olivier Martinez and Diane Lane in more movies. I think this movie really did show their talents. Please enjoy this movie. I think it is a must see for all women!!
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Summary: Good People Making Bad Mistakes
Review: A lot will probably be said about this film's sense of eroticisim, but what's far more interesting is it's recognition of repercusions and responsibility. This movie is an excellent portrait of good people making bad mistakes. Right after seeing this film, I was originally tempted to think of it as a combination of Bridges of Madison County and Fatal Attraction, but that would be an injustice, since Unfaithful is superior to both. Unlike Fatal Attraction there's no psychopath to focus upon as the root of the problem and unlike Bridges female infidelity is stripped of its romantic superiority to male infidelity.
What we are left with is an incredibly honest and insightful portrait of good people making mistakes.
Even when a murder is committed, the audience is never allowed to write off any character as bad guy.
Every character is carefully developed and even after I left the theater I felt that powerful sense of concern over what happens next to these people. That's a feeling I haven't felt since the first time I saw Casablanca.
All in all, it's an excellent film that couples eroticism with a true sense of responsibility - a rare combination indeed.
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Summary: Excellent job by Lyne and Lane
Review: Both Lyne and Lane shine in Unfaithful. What a wonderful acting job by Diane Lane, how convincing and emotionally deep. The elegance and sensuality she pours on this movie are irresistible. And Adrian Lyne directs his best movie ever. The looks are sexy, the camera is exactly where it needs to be, the scenes flow smoothly. This movie is a jewel, and I think both Lane and Lyne deserve an Oscar.
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Summary: Yuck!
Review: Diane Lane does a good job playing the part-- what that part is I can't figure out. Why would a (supposedly) happily married woman throw away an eleven year marriage? She had the nice house on the lake, a career she enjoyed, yet more importantly, she had a healthy relationship with both a loving husband and child. All they forgot was the picket fence. So why does she cheat in the first place? Although it was never discussed, there was a possibility things weren't 100% in the bedroom for Lane's character. Even if that were true... well, hello? Ever heard of communication? Isn't that what women have been complaining to us guys about all along? If that's not enough to keep you away, let me say that the ending is very unsatisfying. Without spoiling the movie, there are way too many loose ends and, quite frankly, the ending that is presented is unbelievable. This movie cheapens marriage to the point where it has no value. Avoid it.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS UNFAITHFUL TO IT'S AUDIENCE
Review: The first hour I am intrigued, engulfed and loving the characters. Now when the second hour comes in you can tell they desperately tried to do something different instead of your regular adultery film (of course we have all seen movies like this before!)but they fail miserably. The movie turns into a whirlwind of being predictable, boring and unrealistic. The plot twists were more like knots that completely ruined a potentially good movie. The acting was excellent but I'm sure even the actors had to doubt how they could salvage an obviously dying plot. Even their intensity diminished towards the end of the film. The movie was so disappointing I had to rent "Fatal Attraction" to remind myself of what a real unfaithful/psychological thriller should be!
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Summary: Unfaithful: Crime and Punishment in an American Suburb
Review: This is the movie that everyone should view before deciding whether to engage in an adulterous affair. Connie Summer (Diane Lane) is a woman with far too much time on her hands. Her husband Edward (Richard Gere) easily earns enough money to support the family in an upper middle class lifestyle. Connie only has one
boy and no serious avocations to focus upon. She is an attractive and bored woman approaching middle age. In other words, Connie is a walking time bomb waiting to go off. Connie literally runs into the much younger Paul during a windy afternoon in Manhattan. One thing leads to another, and eventually Connie ends up in Paul's bed. The odds are highly against this become a lasting relationship, but Connie enjoys the lustful encounters and isn't particularly interested in thinking about the distant future. The pleasure sectors of her brain now dominate the analytical. Practical questions can wait to be answered on another day. Edward wasn't born yesterday and quickly realizes that something is amiss. We follow the unfolding events knowing full well something tragic is about to occur. The dialogue is near perfect, and the acting superb. Diane Lane is brilliant and this may be the best work that Gere has done in a number of years. Director Adrian Lyne's approach is thoroughly secular. These characters display no religious inclinations. Nonetheless, the awfulness of adultery comes across loud and clear. This is an act of betrayal that almost certainly will severely damage, if not completely destroy a marital relationship. Do you really wish to take that risk? After seeing Unfaithful, you will likely say it's not worth it. I can't quite give this film five stars, but four and a half seem appropriate.
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Summary: Divine trash
Review: I had a great time watching this film all by myself on a rainy Saturday afternoon. It was cold outside, but the theater was sizzling. The movie poster for this flick promises eroticism, passion, and raw sexuality . . . and it delivers. Nobody ever said this was a thought-provoking masterpiece that would linger with viewers for days to come. It isn't. The plot of this film is somewhat threadbare. Diane Lane is Constance Sumner, a content, but somewhat bored and unstimulated, housewife in the New York City suburbs. Her life revolves around her husband and 8-year-old son, Charlie. Charlie, in fact, was the entire reason Constance found herself in the City on the fateful day she met Paul Martel, the French hunk portrayed by Olivier Martinez. Intent on organizing a charity auction for Charlie's school, Constance finds herself besieged by an urban windstorm, and she literally bumps into Martel on the street. After allowing him to tend her skinned kneee, Constance finds herself swept into a capricious passion with the much-younger man. They carry on for several weeks, taking risks and getting more careless as time passes. Constance is a horrible liar and her husband soon grows suspicious. His heartbreaking realization that his wife has been unfaithful leads the beginning of the end of all their lives. Of all the characters in this film, the only one that evolves much beyond the first 15 minutes is Martinez's character, Paul. The audience learns more and more about him as the film progresses. Constance begins the film as a bored housewife and end the film as a frantic, guilty housewife whose future is horribly bleak and uncertain. Richard Gere's character, Edward Sumner (a man so boring he seemed be a born cuckold), is disappointingly flat. Look folks: this movie was promoted as erotic and that's really all it is. Those who claim it's more interested in sex tnan in hearts and minds would be right. That doesn't make it a bad film. I enjoyed it, and seeing it alone was no big deal because there really was little to discuss afterwards. It's eye candy, pulp fiction, not an intellectual conversation-inducing film.
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Summary: loved it!
Review: Very good movie! Richard Gere and Diane Lane were great, but when you see Olivier Martinez.....WOW!!! You just never know!
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Summary: I'm still crying...
Review: I just returned from watching this movie. I was prepared for a cathartic ending such as the one in Fatal Attraction. I walked away from Fatal Attraction feeling exhilarated and grateful that the couple could go on with their lives. However, while watching Unfaithful, I started to cry in the middle and was sobbing by end. Yes, Diane Lane gave a wonderful, gut-wretching performance. But it was Richard Gere who grabbed my heartstrings and didn't let go. I thought he did a great job of displaying his grief... Diane was excellent in her performance. I can see why folks would think that Richard Gere seemed stiff in this movie. However, I saw him as one who was in great pain and was wonderfully stoic as he confronted his wife's lover. I found this to be a haunting, disturbing movie. I'm glad I saw it, but will not see it again.
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